Breaking: Libby half-pardon forces St. Cindy back into politics
posted at 3:48 pm on July 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Just when she thought she was out they pulled her back in. Ah well. Thank god our long national nightmare is over. And by “long” I of course mean 36 days.
No matter how much I try, I can’t stay mad at a woman who uses the terms “BushCo” and “sheeple” unironically.
I’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon —and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in…
Did we ever think that the criminality and arrogance of the Nixon White House would be eclipsed in our time with nary a “baaaah” from the Sheeple in Congress?…
The recent commutation of I. Scooter Libby’s sentence, however, was the straw that broke my camel’s back of exhausted ennui. Patrick Fitzgerald is a thoughtful and thorough prosecutor who did a heroic job of bringing at least one of the Bush Crime Mob to justice. Even though we were all very pleased, we knew that it was not enough and that Mr. Fitzgerald would delve deeper into the feces infested executive branch. The lawlessness of the Bush Administration has reached wild west proportions and the inmates definitely have control of the US(A)sylum…
It is about time us “peasants” (in the eyes of the Fascist Ruling Elite) march on DC with our “pitchforks” of righteous anger and our “torches” of truth to demand the ouster of BushCo. I have a dream of the detention centers that George has built and filled being instead filled with Orange Clad neo-cons and neo-connettes.
“[T]he straw that broke my camel’s back of exhausted ennui.” Dare I say it, the shade of purple on that prose is downright Olbermannesque. “Pitchforks of righteous anger” also evoked a healthy redfaced embarrassment in your humble correspondent. We may — may — have a future Bulwer-Lytton winner on our hands here.
Her post ends this way, please note:
Author’s note: Please, I already see “Attention Whore Back.” If anyone thinks that I am going to walk hundreds of miles in the Deep South during July for attention, then please join us!
Exit question nudge: Admit it, you missed her.
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So many thoughts.
So many ways to get banned.
oldleprechaun on July 3, 2007 at 3:55 PM
Speaking of Olbermann, he’s got a Special Comment tonight. I am literally shaking with anticipation. I can’t concentrate.
Alex K on July 3, 2007 at 3:56 PM
If Rosie is gone then Mother Sheehan is a good replacement.
Number 2 on July 3, 2007 at 3:56 PM
This fills the gap left by the departure of Rosie.
And none too soon.
Slublog on July 3, 2007 at 3:57 PM
Well her absence was longer than her fast. Sorry, I didn’t miss her.
Spirit of 1776 on July 3, 2007 at 3:57 PM
It’s just fantastic the way the quote marks are around only the nouns:
Alex K on July 3, 2007 at 3:57 PM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to look like idiots to those that do.
a4g on July 3, 2007 at 3:57 PM
Cindy Sheehan can’t retire for the exact same reason that Cher has had about 4 Farewell Tours (along with myriad other ‘retired’ actors/singers/famous people):
Being recognized, getting interviewed, having people quote you - in a nutshell, being famous - is intoxicating.
She spent 30 days watching the world go on without her and she couldn’t handle it. She’s not longer able to feel important without a crowd of admirers/sycophants there to tell her she’s important.
I imagine all it took was one Hugo Chavez article without a single picture of St. Cindy and she knew (_knew_) that she had to come back.
JadeNYU on July 3, 2007 at 3:58 PM
As amusing as Mother Sheehan boldly returning to the fray is, you need to check out Sully’s site if you haven’t yet. It’s all-Scooter, all the time. You can almost hear his whistles of teakettle-ish rage all up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Eagerly looking forward to a takedown of it all…
Il Padrino on July 3, 2007 at 3:58 PM
*yawn*
Cindy who?
MikeZero on July 3, 2007 at 3:59 PM
Nah, didn’t miss her. And it’s only a matter of time til Rosie’s back too. Media attention drives people like that. They can’t stay away too long
PowWow on July 3, 2007 at 4:00 PM
So she doesn’t object to detention centers per se, just to who’s in them.
Interesting.
Citizen Duck on July 3, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Just when she thought she was out they pulled her back in.
Ooooh! A DOUBLE gansta ref! Nice work (if you can get it)…
mojo on July 3, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Hey, as revolting a loser as she is, you have to have some kind of small glimmer of admiration for someone edging into their 14th 15 minutes of fame.
I mean, sure, the “Rage Against My Daddy” routine was stale when it was invented however many thousand years ago that was. It would be nice if someone other than bloggers could comment on the fact that these comfortable Western lefties never actually protest in ACTUAL tyrannical countries.
Merovign on July 3, 2007 at 4:01 PM
I didn’t realize that Scooter Libby killed her son.
see-dubya on July 3, 2007 at 4:02 PM
At least we got 36 days of not having to look at that pile of dog crap she calls a face!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on July 3, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Spoken like a true tinfoil-hat wearing leftist.
charlottecorday on July 3, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Actually, at least in the case of Sheehan and Hugo Chavez, they’re honored guests, not to mention enthusiastic supporters, of the tyrants themselves.
Citizen Duck on July 3, 2007 at 4:03 PM
The crowd goes wild with cries of “Encore! Encore!”
St. Cindy slowly walks back onto the stage, climbs up the ladder, and starts, once again, to tap dance on her sons coffin.
N. O'Brain on July 3, 2007 at 4:07 PM
Pitchforks? Is she channeling Pat Buchanan circa 1992?
Maybe she can join Rosie on a special, harm-warming episode of Herr Olbermann’s craptastic show. Special guest stars: Sandy Berger, Susan McDougal and Marc Rich.
Thomas the Wraith on July 3, 2007 at 4:07 PM
…
AlexB on July 3, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Well said! That’s pretty much what my son, who went to Iraq twice, says about her. He told me if he had lost his life over there and I had behaved like this, he would have haunted me for the rest of my life.
speed911 on July 3, 2007 at 4:11 PM
If the Dems were not working so hard to shut down Gitmo, Libby would be headed there this minute.
I wish I could do the “/sarc off” here.
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 4:13 PM
wicked awesome.
Editor on July 3, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Nooooooooo.
Just when we finally thought we’d get to stop seeing St. Cindy’s and Rosie’s ugly mug on HA, BAM, she’s back.
No matter how much time you spend in a slaughterhouse, you still don’t appreciate getting hit in the face with a handful of pig guts when you’re not expecting it.
Darn you AP, darn you to heck.
Hollowpoint on July 3, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Looks like she isn’t quite finished dancing on her son’s grave yet!
MadisonConservative on July 3, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Fitzgerald = Nifong. What does law have to do with a prosecution? The lefties reaction to this is hilarious. All of these garbage attacks from the Same jerks are just the same thing they have been screaming…liar, thief, lawbreaker, etc.for 6 1/2 years. The same trash over and over and over. Their attacks have been so vitriolic for so long that now the attackers are like caricatures in a cartoon. Insult without meaning is waste rhetoric. I just read a whole list from the dims and I swear every insult to Bush seemed to be written by the same brainwashed moron and probably was. About time Cindy jumped back in. Hard to feed your face if you don’t have something to bring donations in.
volsense on July 3, 2007 at 4:17 PM
There Cindy, I fixed that for you. You really need to read your drafts more carefully so misrepresentations like this don’t get published. You’d be surprised what a good editor could do for you.
Mallard T. Drake on July 3, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Turn back the timer for another 15 minutes.
It is rerun season.
Kini on July 3, 2007 at 4:19 PM
I waded through the comments section (hack, ptui!), and would now like to peel my skin off. *shiver* Anyway, St. Cindy apparently stuck around to feel the love for a while and left a comment herself that ended with:
*snort*
lan astaslem on July 3, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Nice!
nailinmyeye on July 3, 2007 at 4:21 PM
It’s funny how Liberal fanatics are always seeking to silence/”reeducate”/punish/constrain any sort of thinking or ideology that doesn’t conform to their worldview. It’s almost as if, in the free marketplace of ideas, they know they cannot win.
I remember reading Kos 36 days ago when Saint Cindy was going to ride off into the sunset. The effluent praise propagated by her would-be hagiographers was actually quite hilarious. Only in America could media darlings be made out of morons like Paris Hilton, Rosie O’Donnell and Cindy Sheehan.
Medea on July 3, 2007 at 4:22 PM
One of the best things about being British is that Cindy Sheehan is a far-off, fictional character from another land. She is not real. Instead, she is a comic actor in a transatlantic television series. Britain hasn’t really thrown up an equivalent of Cindy Sheehan, unless you count Wolfie Smith; there’s Claire Short, a former cabinent member who resigned very slowly and now seems likely to un-resign, and there’s Reg Keys, whose son was killed in Iraq. But Claire Short comes across as a rational person (opportunistic, but rational) and Reg Keys seemed genuinely sincere and seems to have bowed out fairly gracefully.
Apeking on July 3, 2007 at 4:24 PM
We sooooo need a dance troup called “The Neo-Connettes.”
- The Cat
MirCat on July 3, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Pitchforks and torches… a Frankenstein reference. Curious, considering she’s the one that is intent upon reanimating the dead to serve her own twisted ego.
rw on July 3, 2007 at 4:27 PM
Not to mention Useful Idiots for real tyrants, while they foam at the mouth about imaginary ones.
Must be hard to march, what with being nailed up on that cross and all.
The woman is almost beyond parody.
ReubenJCogburn on July 3, 2007 at 4:27 PM
Does anyone else notice she looks kinda like Deputy Dog?
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 4:31 PM
The vitriol of the dimos about Libby is kinda like Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling. You scream it enough it means nothing. The constant “rage” of the last 6 years has wore itself out.
volsense on July 3, 2007 at 4:32 PM
“feces infested”?
Wow, that’s a new one, I think.
marc@hubsandspokes on July 3, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Ouch bamc.
What did Deputy Dog ever do to you!
‘pologize!!!
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Nice.
btw, this is the Frankenstein who has the brain of ‘Abby Normal’ right?
BobH on July 3, 2007 at 4:34 PM
I cut her a lot of slack because of her son. A lot.
But enough. She’s a fool and a simpleton and a disgrace, lacking sufficient wit to realize her only use in the national debate was as a human shield for the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, et al. Without a dead son with which to flog the President, she’s useless, and I now think she’s gone well beyond the pale in her continuing desecration of one of America’s finest.
Kensington on July 3, 2007 at 4:34 PM
Keep dreamin’ Cindy, you’re no MLK.
Dusty on July 3, 2007 at 4:34 PM
And no, AP, I did not miss her.
Dusty on July 3, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Burkas for Cindy!
(Donations can be made through Sheeple.org I bet.)
profitsbeard on July 3, 2007 at 4:36 PM
Screw Sheehan, she is human excrement.
OT:
We need to get these BP agents pardoned soonest.
PBoilermaker on July 3, 2007 at 4:36 PM
Just another liberal retread spewing the same old catch phrases and slogans. ~yawn~
Someone please wake me when Karl Marx rises to toss in his two cents. At least that would be interesting.
Liam on July 3, 2007 at 4:36 PM
Thanks be that she is back! There is SUCH a dearth of loud, BDS infected, kooky Liberals.
gmoonster on July 3, 2007 at 4:37 PM
I kinda do miss her.
She’s like the anti-Coulter.
She’s not smart.
She’s not attractive.
She can’t write.
She can’t put a logical thought together.
(need I go on? I can. Or you can.)
BobH on July 3, 2007 at 4:37 PM
I sincerely apologise to Deputy Dog, and any other cartoon dog I may have offended with my insensitive remark.
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 4:37 PM
UGLY She aing got no alibi.. she
uglysaiga on July 3, 2007 at 4:38 PM
Well, that was fast.
Is she going to celebrate by posing her comeback on her son’s grave for Vanity Fair again?
Does she still believe we are all under the deathstar?
I’ll leave it there because I don’t want to be banned.
Still, St. Cindy has easily reached among the lowest of lows that a human being can go.
BKennedy on July 3, 2007 at 4:39 PM
The sad part of the story is… Will we ever believe her if she says she is leaving all of this behind…. again? I feel betrayed.
Guest1.1 on July 3, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Screw Sheehan, she is human excrement.
PBoilermaker on July 3, 2007 at 4:36 PM
I just got onto bmac for insulting Deputy Dog. Now I have to get onto you for unsulting human excrement!
‘pologize!!!
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Does this mean Michelle will do her “Cindy” impersonation? Please, please, please.
KelliD on July 3, 2007 at 4:41 PM
I sincerely apologise to Deputy Dog, and any other cartoon dog I may have offended with my insensitive remark.
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 4:37 PM
ROFL
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 4:41 PM
har! I just had to go look, and there is a sheeple.org — under construction though.
lan astaslem on July 3, 2007 at 4:42 PM
I would be afraid of turning into a pillar of salt if I were to see Cindy in person. She is living proof that a burka is not always bad thing.
saiga on July 3, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Let the hunger strike begin - pass the ice cream!
*hic
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 4:43 PM
What is ROFL? Is it good?
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 4:44 PM
bmac, yes. It’s good.
KelliD on July 3, 2007 at 4:45 PM
Rolling on floor laughing - you tell me!!!
And now for something completely different because St. Cindy is too easy to make fun of.
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Maybe we can get her to run for president as an independent. Michael Moore could be her running mate. Rosie could be her campain manager. Her slogan could be “truther jihad” for America!!
saiga on July 3, 2007 at 4:47 PM
rofl is the sound one of these make.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 3, 2007 at 4:48 PM
See, I just have normal dreams…
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2007-04-10/index.html
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2006-09-05/index.html
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/1999-05-24/index.html
Ok, yeah I’m weird. And Bug-Eyed Earl is my hero. So what?
gekkobear on July 3, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Maybe Mother Sheehan could take over for Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right”. We surely know she can be bought…
Jonas Parker on July 3, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Nice. Well, you know when she’s no snuggling her snoogums, Hugo, she gets a little bored and testy. Damn those commuted sentences (disregarding the fact that the fine and conviction still stand…) Damn them all to heck for bringing those attention whores back into the light!!!
Sorry, felt a little Frankenstein-ian drama there for a moment. It has passed now. Kind of like bad gas.
DakRoland on July 3, 2007 at 4:51 PM
I agree, Michelle’s Sheehan impersonation is beyond hilarious.
PBoilermaker on July 3, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Was she really gone for 36 days? I hadn’t noticed.
Veritas on July 3, 2007 at 4:51 PM
I suck with abreviations, or ISWA. And possibly with spelling.
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 4:52 PM
As conservatives I’m wondering why we don’t practice a little of what we preach and that is compassion. There is nothing more devastating than the loss of one’s child no matter what the circumstance. The initial time of grief is almost always followed by intense anger and lashing out. In Cindy’s case her anger is directed at George Bush. Given this same set of circumstances 10 years ago it would have been Bill Clinton.
Cindy Sheehan is the byproduct of an out of control media capitalizing on a clearly disturbed mother who has given the ultimate sacrafice to her country. While I disagree with everything she says I cannot for one second begin to imagine her pain.
How many commenting in this thread have lost a son or daughter to the war in Iraq or any other conflict? I thought so…
repvoter on July 3, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Yeah, you guys just elect them mayor of London :p
Hollowpoint on July 3, 2007 at 4:54 PM
“…broke my camel’s back of exhausted ennui.”
“Ennui”? I had to actually look this up!
C’mon, does she really write this stuff?
kevcad on July 3, 2007 at 4:54 PM
I captured this, again, just for the pleasure of it. There must be a God. At least Mr. Bush’s God is great in the choice of enemies he/she’s sent him. What a blessing!
I blushed a little too and I missed her or the entertainment she provides. More so, her supporters and followers. She’s a poor thing. They are true sheep.
Entelechy on July 3, 2007 at 4:55 PM
That’s a pretty ignorant argument…good job.
PBoilermaker on July 3, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Is there some sort of Radical Lefty Nutcake Cliche Spouter software Cindy uses to generate these communiques?
Tantor on July 3, 2007 at 4:58 PM
Dude… I think we did for a while, but when she goes referring to Iraqi foreign insurgents as “freedom fighters” between crying on queue for the cameras, well, enough is enough.
With apologies to Ann Coulter, I’ve never seen a woman enjoy her son’s death quite so much.
Hollowpoint on July 3, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Her “pitchfork” reminded me of the stick-marching women in Pakistan, except that Cindy’s gang will wear pink.
Entelechy on July 3, 2007 at 5:00 PM
repvoter on July 3, 2007 at 4:53 PM
I take issue with your assessment.
I have a son in Iarq and it would pain me to no end to lose him. He is doing what he knows is right. Because he is there, I am totally disturbed by the likes of Ms. Sheehan and the Pinko squad who think they speak for me or the likes of me.
By her own admittance, she has been dragged back by the Libby issue. Sorry, it holds zero water. She used up her compassion allotment and is in overdrive to get more attention.
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 5:01 PM
Oh, Dear God, no, not her again!!!
StephC on July 3, 2007 at 5:02 PM
That is EXACTLY why my sympathy is so short for this lady. Plus some little crack that Israel is behind the Iraq war - a little too “Mel Gibson” for me. As soon as anyone says crap like that, I’m done.
And lots of people have lost children in this war and they don’t act the same way as Sheehan. Does that mean they loved their children less?
mjk on July 3, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Her “sympathy free pass” was over about a year ago. And she looks like Deputy Dog!
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 5:05 PM
bmac
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 5:07 PM
“feces” don’t “infest” anything.
She’s not funny. She kissed Chavez’s totalitarian cheeks. She goes beyond comical. People are getting their heads cracked in Venezuela, losing their freedom of speech, private oil companies just had their facilities seized, which is pure theft from the millions of stockholders of these companies. If she wasn’t sheltered by the Hard Left-Media-Complex that promotes her, she’d be asked the questions that would expose her as the fraud she is. Hugo Chavez has dissolved the Venzuelan democracy and set himself up as President for Life. He’s shut down media outlets that criticize him, he’s got his thugs on the street shooting at pro-democracy demonstrators - the citizens of the country. Chavez is the embodiment of everything Sheehan accuses Bush of, but she hugs him and transfers her bile to Bush who’s done nothing of the kind. List the actions taken by Bush to remain in office after his term expires, list one company Bush has nationalized, list one media outlet Bush has ordered shuttered and locked, list one demonstration that had private presidential elite forces shooting at demonstrators. List one occasion when Bush threatened you while you made a eyesore of a media circus in front of his private home.
“It is about time us “peasants…”
Us peasants. Yeh. Rather “YOU, Cindy.” WE the peasants, that is the PEOPLE are not part of your elitist-funded little globe-trotting totalitarian show.
naliaka on July 3, 2007 at 5:08 PM
The winner of the leftie 2008 primary just gasped.
Entelechy on July 3, 2007 at 5:11 PM
I see that our dear Saint Cindy has been out of the limelight long enough. After some of the Dems fail to cave to her every whim and decree, she picked up her ball and went home.
However it seems that they didnt come running to get her back. She has had to resort to inventing some contrived reason (like this whole Libby thing was some big surprise) to get back in to the game so that her wonderful insights can again be shared and discussed across this country that she no longer loves.
I conclude my comment by quoting her “The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing…”
bigskinny on July 3, 2007 at 5:13 PM
I can’t understand how people read dailkos. It is a bunch of ranting in block text.
terryannonline on July 3, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Sorry, don’t buy it. I will grant that she is entitled to grieve. When she makes it public; disgraces her son’s honor and willing sacrifice; toadies up to Chavez; stages events to draw the media to her; allows stunts like being photographed lying on her son’s grave for VF; continually refers to Casey’s CIC as hitler, fascist, nazi, criminal; disparages the USA; etc. etc., she is then open for criticism and ridicule.
Mallard T. Drake on July 3, 2007 at 5:17 PM
That flaming idiot is beyond disgust.
rplat on July 3, 2007 at 5:19 PM
At first. But, I’m adjusting the dope on my rifle.
Mazztek on July 3, 2007 at 5:19 PM
terryann
You are obviously a good conservative. Does that clear it up for you?
On-my-soap-box on July 3, 2007 at 5:20 PM
You could have saved all that typing just by playing
this.
I think your intentions are probably good, but nobody that steps into the public arena gets a free pass from criticism. Nor should they.
ReubenJCogburn on July 3, 2007 at 5:22 PM
Apparently, Saint Cindy is having a ‘rummage sale’ at her Texas plot of land then embarking on a walk from Texas to DC. She sold the land to Bree Walker, a former news anchorwoman, for $87,000.
Bree Walker, whose feet got wet in the anti-war movement when she protested the Vietnam war in the early 70’s after her brother got drafted, intends to keep Saint Cindy’s protest farm open and operating.
And what does Jim Lampley, one of Walker’s three rich ex-husbands, have to say?
…gag me with a spoon.
Another Saint is born, Saint Bree.
SilverStar830 on July 3, 2007 at 5:22 PM
Pretty much the same way one watches those “worst crashes caught on tape” reality shows. Except with more comedic value.
Hollowpoint on July 3, 2007 at 5:23 PM
All joking aside, that woman will get no sympathy from me, ever. She expoits her son’s death for her own gain.In fact, the things she does are an insult to her son’s life. There is a special circle in hell for the likes of that monster.
bmac on July 3, 2007 at 5:23 PM
This woman does not know what evil is.
Her freedom fighters just slaughtered an Iraqi village, and cut the heads off of children.
I’ll give her credit. She makes my blood boil like no other.
Hawkins1701 on July 3, 2007 at 5:24 PM
I have a vision in my head where the dancing stormtroopers, whisk Cindy away and put her in the trash compartment aboard the Death Star, the one with the closing walls, while singing Dean Martin’s So Long Baby
jihadwatcher on July 3, 2007 at 5:25 PM
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